nanog mailing list archives

Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?


From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:46:44 -0400

In a message written on Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:40:53AM -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
Absolutely not.  My spam filters are handling the original spam fine but I am 
getting tons of responses to email I didn't send in the first place.  It's 
legitimate email from legitimate sources so the filters don't catch it but it 
is garbage nonetheless.

For those that use spamassassin, in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs:

header VIRUS_BOUNCE             X-MailScanner =~ /Found to be clean/
describe VIRUS_BOUNCE           Has X-MailScanner with virus signature.
score VIRUS_BOUNCE              5.0

-- 
       Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org - CCIE 3440
        PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request () tmbg org, www.tmbg.org

Attachment: _bin
Description:


Current thread: